Hazard Perception (part ii) opened this week. Which means that this time last week I was just back from a very brief trip to London. It was good to see Charlie again. My work is in the gallery window and looks good (I think!). The show closes after my return to London in June so I have time to go and see it then.
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It was interesting to finish reading Gregor Muir’s ‘Lucky Kunst’ as I was (literally) flying out of London. The final chapters give the definite impression that the energy and opportunities that created YBA scene is something to be viewed as history – recent history, but history all the same. For me it was interesting that Muir (now director of Hauser & Wirth London) quite matter-of-factly documented the seismic shifts in the (London) scene – it’s something I hadn’t really thought about before. It is absolutely amazing that British artists became globally recognised and hugely successful not simply in their own lifetime but in about ten years. Muir himself went from barely surviving to directing a world-class gallery. What I also realised by the last page was that I wasn’t then, I’m not now and I never will be ‘that’ kind of artist.
Before I read Lucky Kunst I was a little worried that leaving London (I mean moving away) was some kind of failure on my part. Now I think to stay there would be a failure – a failure to recognise who I am and where I need to be.
